Dhammapada
Quotes by Dhammapada
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Watchfulness is the path to immortality, and thoughtlessness the path to death. The watchful do not die, but the thoughtless are already like the dead.
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They blame him who talks too much; they blame him who is silent; and they also blame him who speaks little; there is not, in fact, a person who is not blamed. Yet there never was, there will never be, nor is there now, a man who is always blamed or a man who is always praised.
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As the fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back.
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Both the young and the old, both the wise and the foolish, end up in death.
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Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to his duty.
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He who has no wound may touch poison with his hand, and it will not harm him. There is no evil for one who does no evil.
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The Buddhas do but tell the Way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
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There is no fire like passion, no shark like hatred, no snare like folly and no torrent like greed.
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Though all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he no more comprehends the truth than a spoon tastes the flavour of the soup.
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It is easy to see the faults of others, but hard to see one's own. Men point out the faults of others but cover their own as a dishonest gambler hides a losing throw of the dice.
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The wise man will not look for the faults of others, nor for what they have done or left undone, but will look rather to his own misdeeds.
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A day's life of a virtuous man is better than a hundred years' life of the fool.
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It is better to live alone than with a fool.
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Like beautiful flowers, full of colors but without scent, are the well-spo-ken words of the man who does not practice what he preaches.
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A man who has learned little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but not his mind.
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Cling to nothing for its loss is pain.
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He who injures or kills another who longs for happiness will not find it for himself.
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Better than a thousand meaningless words is one word of sense, which brings the hearer peace.
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A man is not learned because he talks too much.
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The Four Noble Truths: Suffering, the origins of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path which leads to the cessation of suffering.
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